SPIDER-MAN: HYBRID

by Mr.williams56

Spider-Man is betrayed by a once close friend and mentor figure, he's been depowered and is left for dead by them. follow Peter Parker on this journey as he earns not the title of Spider-Man but the power as well. follow him as he discovers not only a new world of possibilities but also battles new enemies and assumes a new identity for himself while a question lingers on everyone.

3. Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3

A HERO… BETRAYED

It had been a week since Peter Parker had been betrayed by one he once called a friend and was forcefully striped of his powers, he had spent the last 15yrs of his life being the hero Spider-Man, he had trained a protégé, he had done so much, saved so many people to make up for those he couldn't save and now, there he was, on the ground of his apartment covered in broken debris of his own wall and left to die. But the worst of this was that this was done to him by his own former mentor and friend, Iron-Man, he had left him beaten, bloodied and powerless, and he knew that Tony was going to get away with it, he always got away with all the horrible things he had done, after all, he was Iron-Man.

Peter had laid there the entire time, his body in such pain that he was simply incapable of movement, he was dazed, his vision was severely impaired, his mouth tasted of blood, that was the only thing he could do with it and after so long with, his body had no strength to move, so all he could do was lay there in his tattered costume. He thought if maybe, maybe this was the end for him, it was funny, because he believed he would always go out in a fight, or maybe surrounded by loved ones.

But that wasn't what he was getting, Parker luck rearing its ugly head for a final time huh? Well, then maybe it was finally time for him to just close his eyes, and never open them for good, and as his eyes were near shut,

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

Rings through his home, someone was at the door, he opened his eyes wide, someone was here! Someone had come for him, of course he could close his eyes, he had friends, he had people who cared about him, he had people who needed him outside in his city. Mustering whatever strength, he could, he tried to scream, but nothing came out, then the door was kicked down by someone with Super Strength

"PETER!" the voice of Julia Carpenter

The second Madame Web rushed to her champion, he was bloodied, beaten, his body was broken in some parts, his spine was damaged and he just laid there on the floor of his apartment, left to die. Julia rested his head on her knee, palming his face in her hand, she smiled at him when she saw he was alive, but then her skin went cold all of a sudden.

"Peter…" the sorrow and realization in her face and voice was adamant "Your connection to the web" reading his mind, she was able to find his last sets of memories, seeing what had happened to him and all she could say was "That bastard!"

Picking up her champion and dear friend, she teleported the two of them to the nearest hospital

NEAREST HOSPITAL

The Medical Staff was having their average day, doing what they normally did, some were treating patients, attending to wounded and helping others, such was the nature of their occupation, but then a woman wearing a red trench coat, and red tinted glasses came into the building yelling out

"HELP! MY FRIEND NEEDS HELP!" Julia screamed for anyone who would hear her

And the nurses came rushing for them, taking the heavily bruised Peter out of her hands

"What happened?"

"I don't know, I found him in his apartment like this"

They take him away on a table and rush him to ER immediately, Julia was distraught, why didn't she see this, what had happened and how could Tony do this, and why?

She wanted to just rush into that bastards Tony Tower, a giant monument to his Ego and Psychically dissect his brain from the inside, but she couldn't leave Peter like this, this was wrong, this was absolutely wrong on so many levels, she had to tell someone, she had to tell all of his friends what she had just found out. But first she needed to make sure that he was stable first, she didn't want to leave him alone, with what had happened to him, he was in a terrible condition, and conceded to using her power to see what the nurses would tell her.

And she didn't like it, she found that he had a bruised Spinal Cord, the bone of his left femur had a severe crack in the middle, and it had punctured a few of the nerves in his leg, he had several broken ribs and right now, it would take surgery to fix what had been done to him, that or a miracle.

Or maybe a few Miracles.

FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS

Peter had been placed into a medically induced coma, because one thing the doctors noticed about him was that he was one stubborn bastard, during times when no one was around, he was beginning to spasm out of control, as if his body was trying to fight something, but there was nothing there, whatever had happened to him, had caused the doctors a true sense of confusion.

But that wasn't the only thing that caused them to rub their heads as to what was going on with the young Burnette Man.

While around the city, the few days in which Peter had been comatose thanks to Iron-Man, a certain golden and red avenger was laying in his Ivory Tower after having slept with a hot redhead Super Model (A/N: This is Not Mary Jane, she may be a bitch at this point but this might be going too far) Tony still firmly believed in what he had done was the right thing to do, Peter was a threat, he was too dangerous to be left to his volitions, he had allowed it for long enough and was now looking to enjoy some nice, relaxing peace and quiet before the next world ending disaster that would eventually rock the world, again.

Getting up from his bed, he would speak to his A.I

"F.R.I.D.A.Y, what plans do I have for today?"

"Well Sir, you have a Board Conference by 14:00hrs, then after that you will be flying to Jamaica for a scheduled Relaxation Trip"

"Thank You F.R.I.D.A.Y, now, take some time off for yourself, go live a little with some A.I Hunks"

He told his virtual assistant who just scoffed at him and went offline, Tony smirked at this, in the background the redhead was seen leaving his room fully clothed, and with something from his room. Tony went to lay down on his coach, happy about how things had gone, but he did feel maybe he should check on Peter a bit, the kid did just lose a big part of himself, but hey, he'll get over it, Tony did do him a big favor after all.

BACK IN THE HOSPITAL

Peter had finally woken up from his medically induced coma, his body wasn't in anyway healed, he didn't have his healing factor anymore, he was at least awake, covered with bandages all over his chest, his right arm had a full cast to prevent further hard to it, as well as both of his legs, they had also filled his body with painkillers as to allow his Spine to fully heal from what had happened.

Peter found it funny really, he didn't admit it out loud but he did actually find what was happening right now very funny, or very climatic, the same night this happens, he goes to pay a visit to two people he had placed in a hospital and now he was here, really funny thing Karma is huh?

"Only difference is that they deserved it, you don't" said a voice in the corner

Peter tried to raise his head to see who it was, but he remembered that voice anywhere, he could never forget what one of his dearest friends sounded like

"Aw thank you for the dearest comment, but you have to know that I have a daughter Peter" Julia joked with her longtime friend

Well out of the many things and people he's seen when waking up in the morning, the gorgeous face of Julia Carpenter was a good one to start out what would very likely be a shitty day, so thank you Universe. His comments put a warm smile on her face, at least he was still the man she knew and respected, the man she trusted with her life and the man who would never allow her to be lost.

"Good to have you awake Peter" Julia said with a slight sadness in her voice "I'm so sorry this happened to you"

"It isn't your fault" Peter said back

"It was; I was out doing Multiverse stuff when I should've been with my closest friend" Julia almost screams

"No, the Multiverse is a big place to watch over" Peter concedes "But it is nice to know you took off your duties, thanks"

This put a smile on Julia's face, she really did care for Peter, but this, what Tony just did, this was beyond wrong, and he was acting like he had done nothing, thankfully Miles has been taking care of the city but the poor kid is already exhausted from all of that, school and his personal life. Plus, with Tony continuously coming at Miles, the young boy is starting to lose himself and be swoon by the Golden Egotist and she worried she might be losing a young Spider into delusions of grandeur by the Man who only loves himself.

Peter can see the worry on her face, albeit with only one working eye, he wasn't doing so good but was still making sure that Julia was okay

"I'm fine Peter, you don't have to make me feel better, I'm here to make you feel better" Julia smiled at her friend "But I think you have more pressing matters to deal with soon, tell him to ease up on the hug"

And with that little piece of information given, he could tell she had just winked behind her glasses, she was gone, just gone, vanished to the wind, leaving Peter there in his hospital ward alone, just staring up at the sky, thinking about what had happened a few days ago,

'You're out of control Peter, and I can't have that' Peter remembered Tony saying

And in a small way, Tony was right, because in just less than a week, Peter had brutally beaten one of his villains, the one who is responsible for so much Torture in is life, and Scorpion literally enjoyed being a cannibalistic monster when he was Venom, he enjoyed hurting people and the power it made him feel invincible, and now the two were in the hospital, now he was in the hospital, he must've been in the wrong if this was the end result of all the good he had done in his life, but ironically this would be the part where he would look to his Uncle's memory for guidance, but as of the moment, No.

He doesn't want Guidance; he wants to punch that Egomaniac in the face, but at this point, he guessed that wouldn't be so possible, it was strange, he had lost his powers before, on a couple of occasions he had been powerless, some where he just felt it, but others were he actually was just powerless, but right now, he felt different, he felt empty on the inside, like a large part of who he is was just taken away from him. For the first time in years, he had lost his identity, Spider-Man was who he was, it was the biggest part of his life, the part of him that made him finally step out of the shadow of being a nothing.

But then something he didn't expect happens, his door is suddenly flung open, as Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, Eugene Flash Thompson aka Anti-Venom, Miles Morales, aka Spider-Man, the three of them came bursting into his medical room, Flash was the only one with balloons and stuff because he didn't know what else to bring for a friend.

"Hey guys" Peter said with a groan

"Hey Man, wow, you look like shit" Matt Murdock joked

"Haha, did you come here just to insult me?" Peter asked in a slightly pained but still jokey tone

"Dude! What happened to you?!" Miles asked in perpetual shock

"You want an honest answer or a Parker coated special?"

"Honest one first, then Parker" said Flash

"Honest Answer: Stark did this to me" Peter admitted "Parker coated special: I tripped"

The three were in shock, non-more so than Miles, Tony had been coming to him for the last week, sugaring up to him, trying to make it that Peter wasn't a good mentor at all and that he would be much better for him, Miles disagreed with him at first, then he started showing up at random times, giving him gifts such as a new Iron Spider Suit, the suit was clean, he wouldn't lie

"That bastard" Miles said outright

"Seconded" Flash added

"I knew the man had an Ego on him, but this is just going too far"

Peter could feel his friends distain for the man, he didn't know if he knew what Peter did to warrant such a faith, but at least, he knew he had friends, he knew he wasn't alone in this, good, he was tired of being alone.

"Room for one more or is this party for boys only?" came a soft female voice

The boys all turned around, except for Matt, he already knew the woman was coming by the sound of her footsteps down the hall, but for Miles and Flash, for these two it was a different story, because damn was this chick's appearance summed up in one word 'DAMN!'

And they weren't wrong for that, first of all, the glasses and the Purple Spider Hoodie fit perfectly with her body, her chest was popping out of the shirt, showing off her D-Cup Chest, she appeared to be a 5ft5inches tall with a slim and curved body, her hips were wide and by the way they moved, showed no sign of plastic, neither did her breasts, her face was oval in shape, she had a red blush on her face from across ear to ear, her lips were bright pink and glossed.

(A/N: For all those who think this is Cindy Moon, she isn't, this is an OC Character, that is based off of Cindy Moon, she was basically my replacement for MJ, yes, MJ still exists, for now and also, fuck Zeb Wells for creating Paul, just fuck him)

Zoe Zander, Peter's new lab partner and maybe friend, he wasn't really sure yet, although they did somehow get stuck on a date together, which was weird, he wasn't planning on dating anymore but hey,

"Hey Pete, how's my favorite Lab Partner doing?" Zoe asked with a smirk

"Pretty Good, you should see the other guy" he joked "Sorry I'm such a mess, if I'd known you were coming, I would have worn something fancier"

"Hmm, I don't know, can't get much fancier than a white cast, you know in some countries they consider this a sign of affection" she flirted with a wink

Peter, winked back, maybe, she didn't know, she wasn't sure of that was a wink or if he was in serious amounts of pain, but at least his jokey personality was still there, she found it amazing how he could be in a situation as bad as being thrown across the room by Doctor Octopus and still be making cracks and one-liners.

But Zoe actually came here for a different reason, she was here, because to let him know that Max wasn't going to fire him

"Wait what?"

"Boys, may me and my partner in scientific, biological and technological crime speak alone"

Matt, Miles and Flash all leave the room, leaving Peter alone with Zoe. On their way out, they make sure that they are a good distance away from the two of them before Flash just lets this out there

"Okay how does he do it?" Flash jolted out that question, to the confusion of his two companions "Like how does a nerd in every sense of the word, get with girls as hot as that?"

"That man's Rizz cannot and will never be explained, he doesn't even try to get with most of them and he just does" Miles voiced

"I thought you would be happier for your friend ever since the whole Mary Jane debacle?" Matt inquired from his friends

Flash raised a finger "We speak-eth not of the redheaded whore"

Miles looked up at the lifelong friend turned bully turned friend again of Peter Parker with two arched brows

"Isn't MJ your friend too?"

"You realize the woman was whoring herself around during her acting career right?"

"I did not need to know that" Miles stated

"Honestly I really need that woman out of our man's life, she keeps trying to stick herself to him" Matt added

As the group stood in the corridor cracking jokes on the expense of a certain redheaded model, they didn't even notice a man walk right past them, a blonde with a buzz cut wearing a trench coat, they were walking towards Peter's room. This man, he kept his head lowered as he approached, making sure that the Kid from Brooklyn's Spider-Sense wasn't alerted, he then eavesdropped on the two's conversation.

"Wait, Max isn't firing me?" Peter said with confusion

"Peter, you being attacked in your own apartment was all over the news, Max can't fire an employee who was literally put through something like that" Zoe explained to him

"Oh that god" Pete sigh "At least when I get out of this…" he notions to his broken body "... I at least have a job, I'm not going to start and have to go job hunting again" he said with a smile

Zoe smiled too, she had to admit, he had a beautiful smile, he was quite handsome for a nerd, funny thing coming from her, she often gets looks from people thinking she was some kind of super model or actress or something, she never really liked those kinds of ladies, the ones who thought because they were hot they could do what they wanted.

Peter looked at Zoe with a large and warm smile, there it was again, the smile that always had her slightly weak in the knees, the two stared at each other for a few moments, before their tender moment is interrupted by a knock on the door. Hey Pete, sounded through the door, but the voice, it sounded just like Peter's, which made Zoe confused as to who was talking and why they sounded like Peter.

She approached the door, opening it, and behind it was a face she wasn't expecting to see, it was Peter's face alright, but he had blonde hair and a buzz cut, she turned around looking at her friend, then at the stranger at the door

"Um?" she motions back to the blonde stranger "I didn't know you had a twin"

"Triplet Actually, you'll either meet the other one or not, unsure for him" Peter responded to her

Zoe's face dropped from the smile she was wearing to one of confusion, she didn't know her lab partner had siblings, no wait, he told her that, but she didn't think she would meet the family this quickly, they weren't even dating and after her last relationship, the two dating wasn't something she had thought off, yes, he was hot, but after her last relationship, she wasn't looking forward to dating anyone.

Benjamin Reilly, former known as The First Scarlet Spider, then the Jackal, now he goes by Chasm, as the Spider Clone walks into the room, he looks towards the sexy Asian woman that was staring at him

"Sup, names Ben, who're you" Ben says facing the Asian girl "Peter since when did you start dating a Hot Asian Chick?"

Peter smiles at his Clone Brother, looking at him, it been a few weeks since Ben had gotten the help he needed to stop being Chasm, or at least stop being the villain Chasm, he was going to try to be a hero again, but New York, New York wasn't for him, him and Peter decided that together and together, the Spider-Bros would be, forever.

Kaine was in Houston, Ben was in Las Vegas, and Peter stayed in Manhattan, but maybe that was a mistake, he means now he was powerless, on a patient bed, sure one of his rogues was dead at this point, but then he gets the idea to ask the question.

"Hey, Zoe, I wanted to ask, what happened to Otto Octavius?" Peter asks, no concern, just curiosity in his voice

"Oh him, he's dead, they pulled the plug on his last week" Zoe answered "Why, you know him?"

"No" was Peter's simple answer

Peter wasn't sad at this at all, that man deserved it after all, and when he was in his coma, he had a dream about what Otto did in his body and that was even worse than he wanted to remember, the man was disgusting, he was old and senile and didn't deserve any form of redemption. Peter thought about how that sounded Cynical, but it was the truth of the matter, that the man had so many opportunities to change, and he squandered each and every single one of them.

"Part of me did wish he would've changed his ways though, all that genius and he squandered it" Peter chuckled a bit at himself "Guess I was holding unto hope that people can change, guess that was stupid"

"I don't think it's stupid" Zoe said "I mean, do I think that man was Evil, Absolutely, but you see, everybody has that potential for evil, the same way they have that Potential for good and then most of all, they have the potential for Change"

"Wise words, who every you are?" Ben said, still not knowing her name

"What, oh sorry, my name's Zoe, Zoe Zander"

"Alliteration, nice, don't fumble Peter"

Peter and Zoe both blushed on this, Ben noticed and laughed at his brother,

"Just joking Pete, she's way outta your league, but that has never really stopped either of us" Ben winked "But besides all of that, I heard what happened, you doing okay man?"

"Could be better, but yeah, I'm good" Peter assured his brother

"Yeah ugh huh, I'd believe you if I didn't know Pete. Zoe, can you give me and the brother a few minutes alone please"

Zoe obliged to his request, she walked out the room and into the waiting hall, allowing the two brothers to have a nice conversation between each other. Ben looks outside the door to see Zoe waiting, he closes the blinds and turns back to his brother, with a look that said 'Well? What happened?' and Peter knew that look, because he has had that look on his face many times over, so he confided

"(Sighs) Tony, Tony Stark happened"

"What?"

"A few days ago, I lost it against Doc Ock, he brought up all the horrible things he had done with my body, all the horrible things I couldn't prevent him from doing, the fact that none of my friends could figure it out, that when Kaine figured it out, he mind wiped Kaine to stop him from revealing the truth. And that no matter how I look at it, I was a failure, I always was, and always would be, Parker Industries, the fact that he was a better Spider-Man than I ever would be"

A large part of Peter knew this was true, he was a failure, he would always be a failure, and maybe it was for the best that he was no longer able to help anybody, because throughout his entire career as Spider-Man, who had he truly helped, what had he truly done. He would always be known as the joke of the Avengers, the guy no one too seriously because he would always be the clown of the group. He was the guy who was the most made fun, with every Spider person who came after him had an infinitely better life than him. Miles has his family, Kaine lives in a Hotel, Ben has the love of his life, Jessica has her son, what does he have, his job and Spider-Man were the only things he would ever have going for him, and now he's lost one of those, what was he now?

But then Ben was there to snap him out of his funk "Peter, Otto was only able to do those things because he was using something he had stolen, all his achievements were because he was using someone more trustworthy, he knew he was nothing, so he took something from someone else"

"Otto isn't a Superior Spider-Man, and he never will be, the man only believes in himself and his own ego, just like Stark, the only difference is that one of them is dead and the other will be dead. But if you want my advice on what you're to do now, if you want your powers back, you know how to do it, Julia is just an hour drive away from ESU"

Peter smiled and knew that was true, but first, he needed to decide if he should even go and get his powers back, he was meant to be the best of them, well he's not that hard to replace to begin with, Cindy and Miles are specifically there for that and he can guess that Miles is already on with that, it hurt, but it was true, he wasn't hard to replace.

"Thanks Ben, I'll, I'll put that into consideration"

After a few minutes of catching up between each other, Ben left the room, a small smile on his face, he knew his brother would be okay, he was a Parker, Parker Luck may be a deciding and painful factor in his life, but according to May, (rest be her soul) Parker luck was something bad happening to make way for something good, maybe that was what was going to happen here. He sure had hope for the future in that regard.

Peter opened a book to read, but then once he realized he was finally alone, there it was, it was quite in the room, and finally he let it out, his tears, he was finally able to just release it without anybody around there to worry about him, the silence he would always live in, a life of pain was his destiny and he knew this, he had always known it would end like this, this was the story of his life.

Weak

A Joke

That was how he began in life, he started at the bottom of the Food Chain, prey for anyone stronger than him, the kid that everyone picked one, laughed at, the kid that everyone enjoyed to toss around because he was nothing, he started from nothing and finally, he back to being nothing.

He always believed that if he kept going that maybe things would get better, but now, now he knows that Hope, Hope that if you just keep fighting forward, all the fighting, all the injuries, all the near death experiences he had gone through, all the pain that came with being Spider-Man and all for what, What? WHAT?

He was lying on a Hospital Bed, permanently depowered thanks to an Egotistical Narcissist Billionaire who thinks he knows what's best for everyone, he hates him and the man is up in his tower enjoying his life, what would be the point of hating him? The man had no shortage of people that hated him, some of his own friends didn't like him, his Ex Wife Pepper Pots, she hated his guts for all the bullshit he's put her through and it was just sad how the world works that men like that are the ones on top, the good people are on the bottom, and the manipulating scum are at the top, living like kings.

Peter just closed his eyes, what was the point of fighting men like that, what was the point.

The Point, was not letting arrogant bastards like that have their way in a world that doesn't belong to them. The Point, was making sure the world was defended by those who truly understood what it meant to be heroes, not just in body, but having the heart of a hero as well. The point, was being the one who leads generations further into a brighter tomorrow, and out of a false bleakness of today.

Peter seemingly answering his own question with an internal monologue, he thought it was the voice of the other, but it wasn't, in fact he stopped hearing it, he stopped feeling it near him when Tony depowered him, but Peter didn't know what he was to do now, but he knew that he wouldn't give up on helping others, because that was who he is and who he will always be.

Over the course of a few weeks, Peter would start to gradually heal a bit more than before, yes, he was indeed still hurt, and the doctors informed him that he would be able to walk again, which he was starting to do more and more of around the Hospital, although he couldn't do it more than a few feet 'God I miss Spider Healing' he was always getting tired, sweaty, his body felt weaker as time went by but things were looking good. His friends were coming over to see him, Miles, Flash, Liz Allen, aka Misery (Secretly) all of them were coming to see him whenever they had spare time.

He even requested for Zoe to be bringing some extra work he could be doing to keep himself busy, and she would, he had to earn his paycheck after all, 'Since Stark isn't going to pay for putting me here after all, I'm gonna have to do it myself' Zoe even offered to help him out with it, but Parker Pride, he turned down that offer, if he couldn't take care of himself, then he wouldn't be much of a man now would he.

Zoe conceded, she… she was okay with just hanging out sometimes with him, hearing more of his early childhood, how he was basically the Bottom of the Food Chain in High School, even by nerd standards, he recounts how he loved school, but because of the constant bullying, he would consider not going for weeks on end. Zoe could relate to that, being the same, but with home instead of School.

"Really, let me guess, Abusive Father?"

"Abusive Mother, Drug Addict Aunt and Drunk Cheating Father"

"Wow! No offense, but your family sucks"

"No offense taken, it's why whenever I could I would stay over at my best friend's house"

Peter could understand her, he could relate to her, being together with her, it feels different, no not different, it feels familiar, he looks at her, her intelligence, her kindness, the way she wants to help others despite coming from a broken home, it was familiar, but to where, where has he seen this before.

Peter couldn't put a direct finger on it, but then he decided to just put a pin in it and move on, Zoe laid next to Peter on his medical bed as the two worked on complex gene sequencing so they could finish the work they were doing. Zoe knew she could finish it by herself, but really, why would she need to, when she had one of the smartest people she's ever met right by her side.

A few more days would pass, with eventually, more of Peter's friends showing up to see how he was doing, with one of those friends being Johnny Storm, aka Human Torch, and even Felicia Hardy Aka Black Cat. Something Zoe didn't seem to pay any attention too, she means, one of Peter's friends was a known thief and she was just cool with it, okay, this made no sense to him.

The three would catch up on things, Johnny would try flirting with Zoe, but she would simply tease him but nothing too serious as she would mostly ignore his attempts at asking her out on a date, something that his Best friend and almost brother would give him the 'I swear if you go through with this' face, quickly shutting up all his attempts.

But eventually, after numerous weeks of healing, a quick surgery and a pay increase from Max Modell, not only was Peter paying off his Hospital Bill, he was finally out of the hospital, it was good to be able to smell more than just medical equipment again, the clear blue skies without someone having to lunge him around on a stretcher, a wheelchair or with a cane, it was so freeing. While he was inside, he learned that Super Villain activity was on the high, with The Brooklyn Spider-Man, Daredevils, Moon Knight, all the street vigilantes not fighting crime as hard as he used too, and when they'd come over to check up on him, he would ask why and it was actually very simple.

'We all agreed that if Stark thinks he knows what's best for a city that he always flies over, then that's okay with him, then he can take care of the rapidly growing crime rate'

It was strange, all the street vigilantes wanted him to know how much he was cared for by them, even Elektra showed that she cared, it was strange for him, he knew she didn't like him, but he was close to Matt and Matt respected him and he respected Matt to a fault.

Peter walked through the streets of Manhattan, he was going to try and go back at work by tomorrow, enough rest had been given and it was time to get back to earning a 5figure salary which he had just poured his last one into as to cover his medical bills, and with the amount he had been saving from the Times in Oscorp, he wasn't that bad off, he was actually well off that paying off his Hospital Bills and his rent fee for two months wasn't even bad.

But the bad, well that would be when he got back to his apartment building, because standing in the front of his building would be the last person he would want to see right now, or ever, the bastard really had the audacity to come back here after what he did last time they were within any distance. Anthony Edward Stark. The Invincible Iron-Man.

Peter glared at Tony, the bastard had this sly smirk on his face as if he thought Peter would be happy to see him, he didn't acknowledge anything Stark had to say to him, walking past him he says nothing and Stark puts his hand on his shoulder

"What? No hello for an old friend"

Peter again says nothing, just shrugs Tony off his shoulder and continues to walk away from him, but Tony once again stops him with a holo shield, forcing Peter to stop and have this conversation with him, he turned around and with the most exhausted voice he could muster while giving as little fucks as possible.

"What do you want, Stark?"

"What, a man can come visit one of his friends?"

"You've got some balls on you Stark, coming back here and calling us friends"

"Are you still mad about the whole, no more Spider-Man thing, well for starters, I did tell you to stop ahead of time, you should've just listened"

"Like I said then, I don't work for you" Peter growled this, showing how angry this conversation was making him "So shut the hell up and let me go to my apartment in peace"

"Sorry, can't do that, my people are still making sure that there aren't any remnants of Spider Gear in that secret room you built" this froze Peter, his stash

"Yeah, I found that, I'm just making sure that none of that stuff can be used anymore, thought I'd do you the favor of getting rid of it since you won't be needing it anymore" Tony said with a smirk "You're very welcome Pete and just so you know…"

Anything he said went right over Peter's head, he was far too flabbergasted to even hear anything, this man not only took away his powers, but waited until he was out of the hospital, until he was at full health for him to come back and take away his Spider Gear, and he once again was just going to get away with it, what could he do, none of that stuff was Horizon sanctioned and he just knew that he was going to sell all of it in some way. This was wrong, and there was only one thing Peter could do at the moment and it wasn't going to solve his problem, but it was going to feel good.

"…so I hope you can understand why I'm doing this is for your own good righ ARGHH!"

Peter finally shut Tony up with a straight jab to his face, or it was supposed to be, if Tony didn't come with the artificial Spider Sense he created after stealing it from Peter during the first superhero civil war, when he made him think the Iron-Spider Suit was a gift but in reality it was just a way to monitor him for Tony and steal his spider sense.

Tony having armored up and blocked Peter's fist, the impact of a normal human having struck metal of that density, Peter nearly broke all of his fingers, and once again, Tony had come to find another way to violate him.

"Argghh" Peter groaned

"Damn Kid, good form with the punch though"

Tony drags Peter's hand, using his scanner, he checks that it isn't broken, he had a fracture in the third finger, a little ligament damage, he would be fine in three weeks

"That was stupid kid"

Peter said nothing, what could he say at this point, he had been here before, powerless before someone completely out of his league, but never had he been powerless to this degree, he felt how he felt before he got his powers, like he was at the bottom of the food chain and… Peter put his hand down and just asked the question

"What do you want Tony?"

"I want you, to hand over Miles"

"What?"

"Miles, you Morales, the kid has a lot of promise and he could be a big time Avenger with a little guidance, he's lived in your shadow enough, it's time for him to be molded by a real mentor figure, someone who can bring out his true potential"

"Miles isn't some kind of trophy Stark, he's a hero all of his own, he doesn't need you or me anymore, he's his own hero, he's Spider-Man"

Tony hummed a bit "Touching Speech Peter, fine, I'll let you have that, but we both know who the real hero here is and we both know that the kid isn't ready for what your throwing on him" after saying this, Tony released the barrier blocking Peter from the rest of the building.

"See you around Pete, and I hope you see that I'm doing this for the greater good"

Peter went up to his apartment, he opened the door to find the place was in a wreck, looks like Stark looking for his gear involved destroying parts of his apartment, but the most heartbreaking part was that he had destroyed the small workshop he built "No, no, no!" Peter mumbled running towards it, his workshop was fully stripped of everything, his Horizon Projects, his Spider Gear, everything, his suits, all of it was gone, what more would this man take from him just because he could.

Because he refused to be controlled by the man, and he still does, it had cost him his powers, Three Months in the Hospital, and now, it had cost him his work, what was supposed to be his mark on the world.

TWO DAYS LATER

Peter had spent the last two days cleaning the busted up apartment, replaced floorboards, fixed cracks in the walls, he had repaired everything and ordered some new furniture, to replace the ones that stark had destroyed due to him, doing things for the greater good.

Like he can even comprehend what that means.

Peter's fingers were covered in Band-Aids as he sat on his new coach, he hadn't been able to leave the home without much happening to him, Stark had truly been determined to hurt him, he believed this was something else, something personal, and in the last confrontation they had.

Stark didn't know what he was talking about, he was just trying to keep a threat from doing anything to hurt the people of New York, Peter said he had never done anything to ever hurt the people of this city, but Tony brought up Superior, in which Peter was ready to lash out again, but this time, because of his damaged fingers, he didn't, it wasn't worth it.

Tony wasn't worth it and he didn't decide what a hero was, someone who didn't understand what a real hero was could never make someone else into one.

PRESENT

Peter opened the door to his apartment, he had to make an excuse to Mr. Modell at work today because he wouldn't believe him if he said that Tony Stark had taken away all of his projects, and was now going to either destroy, store or sell them. Peter's excuse was that when he was attacked in his home, the guys who did it must've stolen all of the tech he had been storing there to work on and Max understood, even noticing Peter's damaged fingers, in which he had to cover.

His life was getting worse, Stark had caused him so much in a short amount of time, but at least things were starting to at least resemble and iota of looking up, he held unto that Hope. That belief that if he kept pushing forward, working harder, helped more people, things in his life would improve, that belief that his suffering was only there to make others better wasn't real, he believed what The One Above All showed him that day, that all he had to do, was push forward, maybe at least, keep trying until he finally finds his own happiness.

He knew that was just a pipedream, but hey, that dream is basically all he's running on these days, he can't lose that hope now, or ever, at that point, he would just…

He didn't know what he would do next, it was like parts of his life were just breaking apart, piece by piece it was falling apart around him and it was shattering faster than he could rebuild it or even pick up the pieces. He had very few lights left, he had gone to talk to Mary Jane yesterday, and big mistake that was, when he told her what Stark had done, her answer was

'Good, know you can stop pretending to be a hero'

He often looks back at his past with that woman and he can remember the looks she would give some of the other actors during some of her shoots, or the ones that Stark would give her when they lived in the Tower together, and now, with her and Paul. (A/N: I'm sorry for having to remind you of his Existence. FUCK HIM!)

He thinks back to what he actually liked about her, the woman he loved was gone and replaced by that unrecognizable whore, but if Paul wants her, then he can have her, she doesn't want him and he wants her to just go away forever, she has the audacity to talk when if not for him, she would be dead a hundred times over by now. Then she said this while wearing that Jackpot outfit of hers, at least Black Cat was smart enough to slap some sense into her for that comment.

Jackpot Vs Black Cat anybody?! No, nobody cares about Jackpot anyways

THE NEXT DAY

HORIZON LABS

Peter and Zoe were getting some more work done together, they were actually starting to get along more, it was different to how they started out, where she wouldn't even talk to him, now the two were having a complete conversation about things they did as children, inventions they made for stupid reasons. Zoe had her tie wrapped on her forehead while she spun around in a chair, she sounded drunk, but she was just having fun.

"I once told my Biology teacher during a class on Evolution that I could devolve a Chicken, into a Dinosaur" Zoe alleged "He told me that this wasn't Sci-Fi class"

"Could you actually do it?" Pete asked, a smile on his face

"Yep, brought it to class two weeks later, Roaster-saurs Alpha" she said with a joyed slur "It got out and ate my teachers cat"

"Shit" Peter said in astonishment "Okay, here's one, I once made a device that can delete any digital copy of a person's consciousness within the span of the entirety of New York out of spite for a bad guy"

"Damn" Zoe responds "Did you use it?"

"Oh yep, if the guy is still alive, then that is his problem, if he isn't, him and Mephisto can share stories in hell"

Zoe was slightly taken aback by that last comment, unusually dark from him, but hey, he did just get out of a coma to find that his home had been ransacked of all his equipment afterwards, luckily, Iron-Man had recovered the stolen technology, but requested to keep it for safe keeping. Max Modell knowing the big time Avenger was maybe in the right on that decision, that whatever Peter was working on could be used better in the hands of Stark Unlimited.

This raged Peter, knowing that now Tony had used his Avengers status to confiscate his technology, the man was petty, but this was an all-new low for him. Zoe stared at her lab partner

[ASK HIM OUT] said a very raspy voice in Zoe's head

'No' was her simple reply 'Besides, I don't see him like that, he's just a friend'

[YEAH, LAST NIGHT ON YOUR BED WOULD SAY OTHERWISE]

Zoe suddenly blushed beat red, her face was so red that she was actually steaming from the intensity of how she was blushing

"Hey, you alright?" Peter asked, he quickly presses his forehead against Zoe's, making her swoon before gathering her bearings once again "Your face is all…"

"I'm alright!" she screamed

"Ow my ear, loud much"

Zoe started to frantically apologize to her…Friend? Lab Partner?... Lab Partners, that's what they were

And nothing else!

[HMM-HMM] Zoe could just feel the smuggest smirk on the voices face

She gathered her stuff, her face not changing from the blushed embarrassed smile she currently had on, walking out of the lab with that blush still on, the lab doors shot open as she ran out with a big blush on her face.

Peter was so confused right now, he thought that they were actually having a nice friendly conversation, that they were starting to relate to each other. He just chalked up what had happened to a nice healthy serving of Parker Luck once more, he didn't care what Uncle Ben and Aunt May said about it, Parker Luck was a curse, their family always had it, from Ben's miserable life, to Kaine's cursed existence and to Peter, god did he have it the worst.

He looked around his place of work, his lab, the place he felt most at home now, the only place that mattered to him now, he knew that Parker Luck wouldn't allow this to continue for longer, his life was a never ending cesspool of the things he loves being taken away from him without rest or reason.

The work day ended, he showed Max the designs for what he was working on, and it was amazing he had to say the least, Peter was happy for the small amount of time, he believed he was allowed that much in his life, but hey, at least he could get a paycheck, hours at work.

But there was one thing that kept bugging him, it was the state that Manhattan was in, at this point in time, it had become evident that Spider-Man was missing in action without rhyme, reason or trace, the criminals are starting to get bolder and bolder, and the Vigilantes, the Defenders are working harder and harder to keep everything in check. It was getting harder and harder due to the fact that not all of them had a reduced need for sleep, this was one power that Peter and Miles didn't share, as he needed to sleep more than Peter ever did and doesn't have the same speed of Healing.

At least the city was in good hands for now, he just felt bad for the others having to basically inherit all of his problems in one fell swoop.

He went home and decided to call it a day, it was strange just going home without having to stop multiple crimes a minute, having to operate through the freezing cold or the burning days, without it constantly raining on him, it was actually quite nice to have a normal life again, even if Stark was a constant reminder of what was taken from him.

Another Bastard whom would go unpunished for their numerous crimes against humanity and even mutant kind which he shall not get into at the moment.

Peter steps into his apartment and inside, he finds someone he hadn't expected to see, he and her were rather close in high school and even till this day, but seeming how he was the godfather of both of her sons, he guessed they were still friends.

Sitting on his coach, was Liz Allen, unknown to Peter, was the Host of the Misery Symbiote, a Carnage and Anti-Venom Hybrid, she was sitting there with her legs crossed in a red and white piece suit, she had taken off her shoes, so at least that was a good sign. He literally had a sign on the wall that said 'NO SHOES'

Respectful, which is new for her to him.

"Hey Liz, what're you doing here?" Peter asked his friend from high school

"A lady comes to your home and you don't even ask how she's been"

"Maybe if said lady didn't break into my house in the middle of the night"

"Rude, I didn't break anything"

As soon as she said that, the flower vase that Peter kept on the open window, which showed how Liz got into his home, through the fire escape, but wait, how were her clothes so clean then, there wasn't a single piece of suit or even a wrinkle on it, man that must've been good material. But then Peter noticed the bag next to her foot, he was about to ask what was in them, when a live News Broadcast came on.

On air, was Anthony Edward Stark, aka The Invincible Iron-Man

"What is he doing?"

{People of New York, this is not an easy thing for me to say, it is not an easy thing for me to do, but it is a thing that has to be done} Tony said on the TV {As many of you know, there has been an increase in crime rate in Manhattan for the past several weeks, due to the absence of a certain Wall Crawling Hero} Peter wondered what Tony was doing there, what was he doing? {And it is with a heavy heart, that I have to inform you, that the Hero known as Spider-Man, has passed away after a heavy battle with Venom}

Tony just made it that announcement and it was live, everyone was seeing it, including Dylan Brock, he had just been framed for the death of his own Godfather and Uncle basically as well as a beloved hero.

Dylan Brock aka Venom spat out his drink, with them there was Dylan's best friend, Norman 'Normie' Osborn Jnr, aka Red Goblin, and Bren Waters Aka Toxin, the three Child Symbiote Hosts were all bamboozled at what they were just blamed for, where Venom grew out of Venom's body, forming a head and face and all six of them at once

"WHAT?!" the six screamed in unison

Back with Peter, he was already frantically calling Dylan to let him know that he and Venom hadn't done anything wrong and that he was safe

"Dylan, Dylan can you hear me?"

{Yeah Uncle Pete, what the hell is that rich guy doing?}

"I have no idea, but until this blows over, I don't think it's safe for you in the Townhouse"

{Don't worry about me, I'm staying with Normie for a while, until this all blows over}

"Stay safe kiddo"

{You too apparently} Dylan cuts the call

Peter faces back to Liz, her expression was also quite very surprised at what the Billionaire had done, then she looked back to Peter with a puzzled look

"Okay, you aren't dead right, this isn't me talking to a ghost or an imposter, right?" she said raising her hand

"No Liz, come on, what kind of imposter can replace this handsome and funny guy"

"Ugh! That's you alright" Liz said in a groan "Good, which means I can do this"

"Do what?"

Liz lifts up the bag she came in here with, as she began to slowly open it, what looked like glass containers were inside

"Okay Pete, you will not believe how much I had to pay the Black Cat to steal these from me for you, so you better say yes"

"To what?"

"Flash told me what Stark did, all the times you've helped this city and that is how Tony Stark repays you, everyone has a few moments of rage and he can forgive the Hulk for destroying literal cities of people, but God Forbid Spider-Man has one angry day, then it's bye-bye powers"

"Flash told you about that, because I'm actually fine, you don't have to worry about me"

"Yeah well I'm your friend, and what kind of friend would I be if I didn't worry and that is why I brought these"

She shows the three containment units, each one containing a different colored tendril without form, but the way of their movement was very familiar to him, of course they were, after all, how would he ever forget what a Symbiote is.

"Liz, what're you doing with these?" Peter asked with innumerable concern "Why do you have three very familiar colored Symbiotes"

"To answer both of your question, I brought these here, for you" Liz answered, calmly

"What're you talking about" Peter asked, dragging his hands down on his face "You brought them here for me?" he asked putting his hands together and pointing them at her

"Okay, before you tell me how dangerous this is, I can assure you that this is 100% going to work"

"Wor…? you want me to bond to three Symbiotes at once?"

"No." she bluntly answered. To which Peter sighed in relief "I want you to bond to these three Symbiote strands" she explains better

"Why? Liz this cannot be safe, I mean so many things can go wrong with bonding yourself to one, but to multiple at once, that cannot be…"

Liz raises a brow at him, then her red and white suit begins to shift around her body, Peter was left stunned as he saw his close friend Liz Allen, grew in size and weirdly curves as well, as the red and white Symbiote matter crawl up her body, forming a white broken up Spider Symbol on her chest with a white swirl, her long blonde hair turned red, so now she was a redhead, Upside.

Before the now terrified and imposed Peter Parker, stood the giant red haired demon like creature with long red hair and spider like appendages on her back, Misery. The Symbiote Hybrid of Carnage and Anti-Venom.

"LIKE I SAID, PERFECTLY SAFE"

Peter looked on in bewilderment and then Misery started to shrink down, reverting back down to Liz Allen and even changing her clothes to a more casual attire for her friend, she rested back down on her coach

"So, what do you think of Misery, we can be a real riot right?"

Peter was still perplexed by what he had just seen, he looked down at the three swirling Symbiotes in jars before him, was it right, he was betrayed by a friend, now another friend wants to help him get back a piece of something he had lost, of course Julia had done the same, she had offered to help, and he was truly grateful.

But then it clicked to him, Tony had a way to take it away before, what would stop him from damaging the great web once more, Julia was a true friend, but she liked to keep her distance, she wasn't able to stop Superior or Tony from Depowering him, maybe Spider-Man was a problem. As that thought came to mind, he looked back at the TV, the way Tony smiled as they repeated his speech in front of City Hall, standing beside him was the Kingpin, he understood that he had helped him during Orchis, but now they were just parading that he was supposedly dead.

With Great Power comes Great Responsibility

Yeah see where that Philosophy got him for years, broken, beaten down, always in depths and in some kind of trouble, always pour, if being a hero required Sacrifice then where was that bastards sacrifice, he always just had his redemption handed back to him.

Well time he got the payback he deserved

Peter and Liz picked up the containment units, placing each one standing up on the table, there were three, Red, so he could only assume it was a strand from Carnage, White, so he guessed that meant it was from Anti-Venom and then finally, Black, so Venom was a part of this, Great!

Liz took off the lids of all three, as the three Symbiote strands suddenly grew the faces of their respective Symbiotes and jumped out of the pod, wrapping themselves aroud Peter's body, covering up his form, but this wasn't like any other process of bonding he had experienced before

"PETER! DON'T FIGHT THEM JUST SMILE, WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?!" Liz shouted through the pains he was experiencing

Her voice was managing to reach him even as the Symbiotes began to burn and devour him, the red, white and black melding to his skin as it sizzled as they Ravaged his body, and in turn, he broke out the window, landing on the building next over, "No! no!" he screamed in pain as he was beginning to thin threw the city rooftops.

THWIP

Liz fired a web chasing after her friend.

Peter was distraught, it felt as if his body was being eaten alive, he rolled around on a rooftop as it happened, but this failed to quell the extreme acts of agony he was in, the Symbiotes devastate through his mind as he divulges into all the painful moments he's ever had in his life,

Losing Uncle Ben

Recently Losing Aunt May

Norman making him believe that he and Gwen were having an affair with twin children

Kraven Buried Him Alive

Otto trapping him in his own body and doing unspeakable things with it

All the Deaths he couldn't stop

All the Humiliations by either his villains or even by fellow heroes

And now, Stark, having destroyed so much of Spider-Man, and maybe that was a good thing, maybe Spider-Man isn't who stops him, and neither can Peter Parker, the Universe's punching bag.

Maybe it was time for something new

The three Klyntar begin to bond accordingly to his body, he feels it, he doesn't fight it, it hurts, it burns, but then, he no longer feels the pain, he no longer feels the heat, as his suit forms around him, he stands there in all his Red, Black and White Majesty

Spider-Man is no more

But tonight…

UPNEXT: RAVAGER IS BORN

A/N: I know this chapter is slightly longer than my old ones, and it carries out with Tony being a huge prick, but don't worry, Spider-Man may be done, but The Ravager has risen in his place, if this no power thing feels rushed, come on, this was a way to not only gain his old ones, but also new ones as well. If you have any problems, please Review.

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